myrmepropagandistMay 11, 2025

A few months back I closed my amazon account, logged out and blocked the website from my searches.

Shocking how well this has worked. Right up until I needed to order some more Advil. Which I always bought on amazon and very few other online sources sell. When I did the search: just two results on the first page. All the rest were amazon.

They have a very bad monopoly on certain home-goods. I'm delighted to pay a little more to avoid them.

You don't really see it until you leave.

Show threadmyrmepropagandistMay 11, 2025

I highly recommend blocking amazon from your searches. Even if you can't go full "zero amazon" for some annoying practical reason. It's really eyeopening how much of the commercial web they can seem to dominate. I also block pinterest. (pinterest makes it so hard to find the source of images, it's like a virus.) I consider excluding both essential.

Further, if you are going zero amazon it removes the temptation to go back. It just doesn't exist for me. I find another way.

Show threadDon MartiMay 11, 2025
@futurebird that's a really good point. I recently installed a new browser for work and Google on there was 2025 growth hacking Google, not the useful retro-ish Google I had set up on my regular browser, with blocks for big retailers and other over-SEOed sites. A huge difference (my setup: https://blog.zgp.org/fix-google-search/ )
fix Google Search

Show threadgrmon
@dmarti @futurebird nice. Is this blocking Amazon as well? #amazon #advil
May 12, 2025 at 9:06amWeb
Show threadDon MartiMay 12, 2025
@grmon @futurebird the way the Personal Blocklist extension works is that you block sites from search results as you see them. (It starts off blocking nothing then results gradually get better as the user filters out the sites that are better at SEO than content) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/personal-blocklist/
Personal Blocklist (not by Google) – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Personal Blocklist (not by Google) for Firefox. Blocks domains/hosts from appearing in your Google search results.